"Humiliation is good for people. It's been good for me, I'll say that."
-- Fox host Tucker Carlson

"It's not a vaccine, it's a death shot."
-- newly-elected MN State Sen. Nathan Wesenberg on Covid-19 vaccine, calling for Gov. Tim Walz to be jailed

"Nancy Pelosi ran Congress like a prison camp."
-- Rep. Scott Perry

"Finally one less gavel in Pelosi's house for Paul to fight with in his underwear."
-- freshman Rep. Cory Mills

"I've accepted the realm of being this public figure. I've started using my voice for good, pushing issues I believe. Like, I'm extremely pro-life."
-- Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two protesters

"I do want to especially thank President Trump. I don't think anyone should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning. He was all in. What he's really saying for the party and the country is we have to come together."
-- Kevin McCarthy, on being voted Speaker

"The American people -- no matter how you vote -- are sick and tired of drama. And this is nothing but drama."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, yesterday

"I don't want to see President Trump be just third in line to President. I want to see him actually be President."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, yesterday

"You know why I'm upset? Because Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Scott Perry...walked in Kevin McCarthy's office last night and made their own personal demands for which subcommittee chairmanship they want to have, and who they want on committees, and who they want taken off committees. And guess what? The chairman of the Freedom Caucus negotiated nothing for me. Nothing for me."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

"...A refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedom... In captaining the ship of state, we choose to navigate the boisterous sea of liberty, rather than cower in the calm docks of despotism."
-- Gov. Ron DeSantis, on Florida

"All of us who didn't have jobs lined up will be permanently unemployed...I'm so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now... This made us unemployable, untouchable. God, I'm so f***ing mad."
-- from Trump WH Communications Director Hope Hicks' post-Jan.6 texts

"During the past year the West tried to destroy Russia. They didn't realize that in the composition of the world Russia is the load-bearing structure... Like it or not, Russia is enlarging."
-- New Year's Eve host on Russian TV